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11/2 Pfennig - Charles August
| Uitgever | Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German States) |
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| Jaar | 1799-1807 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Quartered shield displaying the Saxon arms — alternating barry and rautenkranz (diamond lozenge) divisions — positioned centrally within the field. The abbreviated legend S. W. u. E. (Sachsen-Weimar und Eisenach) arches above the shield in raised Latin lettering, identifying the issuing duchy. |
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| Schrift keerzijde | Latin |
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Charles August ruled Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach during one of the most intellectually charged periods in German history — Goethe served as his chief minister for decades — but the duchy's copper pfennig issues were strictly practical, struck to address persistent small-change shortages that plagued the fragmented German states throughout the late eighteenth century. The 1½ Pfennig denomination itself was an awkward fraction, a product of local accounting conventions that made poor sense even to contemporaries.
KM#151 spans a production window that runs directly through the Napoleonic reorganization of 1806, when the duchy was elevated to a Grand Duchy under French pressure. Coins struck after that political shift were issued under a ruler with a newly elevated title.